Friday, 20 December 2013

State Museum Lucknow India

STATE MUSEUM LUCKNOW INDIA :

State Museum Lucknow, the oldest and Largest Multipurpose museum of Uttar Pradesh, established in 1863 by the then Commissioner of lucknow. It harbours around one lakh antiquities in possesion. Its areas of aquisition includes: Natural History, Art & Archaeology, Paintings, Manuscripts, Numismatics, Decorative Art, Ivory, Anthropology and many more to to count. few very important antiquities like lion slayer type gold coin oof Gupta Period, Standing buddha, Reclining Vishnu, Dancing Natraja, Rare Birds and animals are quite important.Among others, the museum boasts off an Egyptian Mummy and the pistol of Chandrashekhar Azad.